President Joe Biden called on Hamas to accept the current ceasefire proposal while his administration eagerly awaits the terrorist group’s response.
It’s “now up to Hamas,” the president said during a Wednesday afternoon press conference with Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio. “They need to move on the proposal that has been made.”
The U.S. government has worked with its counterparts in Egypt and Qatar to negotiate a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas. The trio of governments successfully negotiated a weeklong ceasefire agreement in late November, where about half of the 253 hostages held by Hamas were released, but they have yet to get both sides to come to a second cessation of fighting.
CIA Director Bill Burns met with fellow negotiators in Cairo last
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